The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-15

tfInake himself agreeable" Iney aIUerWdrd
asked him to ''raach to, and bide no invit-
ing.n He decided that so far as he was con-
ceTned, for the time, it was hopeless case.
Rut he loved all this when he had learned
more of the people.
A gentleman walking in Sheffield found
moor boy crying most bitterly.
"What are you crying about" he in
0uired.
He replied:
IAN my brothers and sisters can say what
thew like to father, bud if | say aught, it's
poison. l nobbud called father an old eve
face an he knocked ma danna into't ass
howl, amongt' cowks. Egoy! If me an
nv brothers doan't mind, father will soonin
bet master on us"
Here the word nobbud occurs: Chaucer,
in his "Wife of Bath" has
But that pray to all this company
If that speak after my fancy,
As taketh no agrefe of that say,
For mine intent is not but to pay.
That is, nothing but
The following story was commonly told
when | was lad. A certain young lass in
Horton was very sick, and supposed likely to
die. Soon all her relatives and some neigh
hors gathered round her bed and one of
them asked her if she had anything on her
mind or anything she would like to say be-
fore she departed. Raising herself up on the
bed, and looking round on them all, she
said:
"There is only one thing that has troubled
me, and have always been very unhappy
about it, and that is that did not eat more
plum pudding that day aar Sal were wed"
have always had the impression that she
rot better and did not die at that time
In the village of Clayton, near Brad
ford there formerly dwelt a man named
Nathan Bently, who was an inveterate wag
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Peninsula veteran who eked out his small
pension by hand loom weaving. Helived in
cellar dwelling, under what is now, l be-
ieye, the Crown Inn. This old man used to
boast that no man could come over him or
rap him, so Nathan resolved to try what
could be done to lower him down peg.
How, Nathan went every day to Bradford
with milk in the morning, and one day he
noticed that there was a good-sized pool in
the road in front of the dwelling of Hams
worth, the old soldier. On returning about
noon he stopped the horse and cart at the
spot, and began to tumble in his pockets;
and finally he sent the horse home with the
cart alone He then knelt down by the side
of the muddy pool, and, doubling up his shirt
sleeves, began cropping in the mud with his
right hand. Hainsworth saw this and his
curiosity was excited. Then leaving his
loom he went up to Nathan and asked him
what he was looking for. Nathan told him
he was looking for a sovereign and begged
Hainsworth to help him to find it. He then
searched for about twenty minutes in the
muddy water with Nathan on the other
side, until a large crowd had gathered
round them, thing easily managed In a
village. At length Hainsworth said:
Nathan, where abaats did ia drop thy
sovereign
Nay" Nathan replied, "rve moan dropt
no sovereign; I'm nobbud seeking one"
''Ah! an all seek thee lad, some day"
But Nathan had run off home as fast as
mis- legs could carry him. The old soldier
Dragged no more after that.
In village not far from the one last men
toned, / knew a man called Tootal, and he
used to give out the hymns in the chief
chapel Of the place. 1t was then the Gus
tom, before organs and harmonious were
used in places of religious worship, for the
choir, if there was one to use the tuning
fork to get the proper pitch for the
tune. On one occasion. when Mr. TOotal
was about to give out the hymn, the proper
pitch was given him, but either through
careless or inattention he failed to respond
properly. The consequence was that after
short effort the choir came to a full stop.
The leader then turned toward the pulpit
and said
John, you have given out the hymn on
the wrong key"
To which he replied:
Whether I've given it out on the wrong
key or not, ye've getten into't lock-" .
On another occasion, during the reign OF
George ", friend of mine entereda chapel
i'll the village of Allerton, when one of the
deacons was offering up the prayer before
the sermon. After asking that the blessing
Of heaven might rest ON the then royal
family, he exclaimed:
Lord bless his present majesty who sits
ON the throne of England Prepare him, L
pray Thee, to wear a crown i'll heaven, Tor
thaa knaws, Lord, at he wor nivver fit ia
wear an earthly one!"
Yorkshiremen are well known for being
plain in their language and this was SUI
ticiently so, but quite characteristic of the
West Riding people.
In the same chapel, before they had reg
ular choir of singers, it was usual for some
one in the congregation to set the tunes, and
there were always one or two in the con-
gregation who could be relied on for that
duty. One Sunday morning the one who
should have struck the tune had bad cold.
However, he tried two or three times to
start the tune from his place in the gallery,
but failed. He then shouted across the
chapel to another man who sometimes Of
hciated:
Il say, thee, Jacky Wilkinson, thee set
the tune this morning, | cannot, for I've
getten kttlin e. me throit."
AT which the people laughed, as a kit
Ting in Yorkshire means a kitten. What
he meant was a tickling.
Before the introduction of instrumental
music into the Dissenting chapels in the
West Riding, there was great disappoint-
ment among the choirs at its exclusion and
very strong devices were resorted to to mas
ter the opposition. In the Tetley street
Baptist Church, Bradford, the following de-
vice was bit upon: The musical portion of
the congregation and choir formed them
selves into band and bought all the in
struments needed. On these they practiced
until they were all ready for the attempt,
when they got possession of the key OF the
school, where there was an entrance into
the chapel. On the Saturday evening all
the instruments were hid away under the
seats of the singers pews, and when the min
lster gave out The first hymn on Sunday
morning they were all dragged out and the
players played and the singers sang, and
there was an end Of the matter. The bass
viol won the battle, and all opposition IN
the congregation broke down at once and
the enemies of instrumental harmony
heartily accepted the change
Every ono knows that the men OF the
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